(Washington Insider Magazine) A USPS mailman in Brooklyn (NYC) was arrested on suspicion of delivering cocaine to a woman during her work route in exchange for $500 dollars for each operation.
Zarwardy Lewis, a USPS mail carrier in Brooklyn, was arrested on suspicion of making cocaine deliveries during his work route, New York authorities said.
Lewis, 35, Was Charged With Drug Distribution
Lewis, 35, was charged with drug distribution Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court after the US Postal Service’s (USP) Office of Inspector General said he had delivered at least three packages of cocaine to addresses in that county in December.
The investigation began after authorities searched a package from the Caribbean bound for Bedford-Stuyvesant and found it contained about two kilograms of cocaine, special agent Kyle Knieste said in court documents.
The package, which has a street value of around $60,000 according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), was one of three tracked by investigators that came from the same sender, all with addresses delivery around Bed-Stuy.
Each time Lewis dropped off one of the packages he received electronic payments of $500 from a woman named Evangeline Nery, 45, according to court documents.
Investigators began monitoring Lewis and saw him make another alleged cocaine delivery from his mail truck at the Atlantic Terminal shopping center in Fort Greene on January 26. There investigators saw Nery, a Bronx resident, give Lewis an empty plastic bag before entering the mall, Knieste testified.
Moments later Nery left the mall and retrieved the bag from Lewis’s truck. Investigators later found a kilogram of cocaine in the bag and searched Nery’s cell phone, where they found messages with photos, postal receipts and packages like the ones Lewis had been delivering.
Lewis was arrested and allegedly admitted to officers that he delivered the cocaine to Nery in exchange for payment of $500 per package. Both have been charged with cocaine distribution, the New York Post reported.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
This article is written by EI Diario.
